§ 71. Sir W. SUGDENasked the President of the Board of Education what steps he is taking to ensure that necessitous school children, many of them born of neurotic and otherwise disabled soldiers since 1915, will receive such special food and care, in view of the amount set aside in the Education Estimates for such purpose and that a smaller amount per child is shown than was used before the War, when no such special necessity existed?
§ Lord E. PERCYI think my hon. Friend is under a misapprehension. The amount taken for the provision of meals in the Board's Estimates for 1922–23 and 1923 24 enables the Board to pay grant on an expenditure by local education authorities for this purpose largely in excess of their expenditure in any, year before the War.
§ Sir W. SUGDENIf I bring cases to the notice of the Noble Lord, will he look into them?
§ Lord E. PERCYCertainly.